Tyrannosaurus regina

By replacing rex (Latin rēx (“king”)) of Tyrannosaurus rex with Latin rēgīna (“queen”).

In olden days man fought Tyrannosaurus rex; nowadays he battles Tyrannosaurus regina—his wife.

1965 January 22, “Time Listings”, in Time: The Weekly Newsmagazine, volume 85, number 4, page 2:

You have scaly tail which helps you to stand up—like a tripod, like Tyrannosaura regina, but you are much smaller than she is.

1971, Bruce McAllister, Humanity Prime, Borgo Press / Wildside Press, page 54:

It’s Tyrannosaurus rex, the largest flesh-eating animal that ever thunked across the earth.[…]It’s made of chicken wire, plastic and rags dipped in gooey glue.[…]Meanwhile, he is in the school, probably looking for a Tyrannosaurus regina.

1971 April 29, Kathleen Bowman, “Thunk! A monster is born: Little fingers fashion a Tyrannosaurus rex”, in Enquirer and News, Battle Creek, Mich., page A-12:

[…]in adolescence the developing dinosaur is entrusted to Miss Tyrannosaurus Regina whose long life and virginity ensure her authority:[…]

1978, Evan Zimroth, Giselle Considers Her Future, Columbus, Ohio: Ohio State University Press, →ISBN, page 45:

A survey published last week found that only five per cent of the men in the entire labour force have wives who don’t work. After I’d read that, I stood in front of the mirror. And there she was, outlined in the twilight, a rare glimpse of a large mammalian female on the verge of extinction. Too big in the body, too little in the head, Tyrannosaurus Regina. We shall not see her ilk again.

1981 December 23, [Jill Tweedie], “All I ask, Mary, is when you visit, throw me a cream bun, OK: Letters from a fainthearted feminist”, in The Guardian, London, Manchester, page 8:

For 99.9% of the Cretaceous week, tyrannosaurus rex would kill anything that moved, eat anything that didn’t, break up the landscape, laugh at its own lousy jokes, belch, scratch, snore, pull the hairs out of its nostrils, and go to lodge meetings. In the five hebdomadal minutes remaining (usually on Saturday night), it would suddenly leap on tyrannosaurus regina with terrible ineptitude.

1982 July 21, Alan Coren, “A Short History”, in Punch, volume 283, number 7392, page 77:

Her [Sandra Weintraub’s] next project is a remake of “The Lost World,” the classic about a hidden valley where dinosaurs still exist. Maybe she’ll make the Tyrannosaurus Rex into a Tyrannosaurus Regina.

1983 April 3, Eleanor Ringel, “Papa makes write choice”, in The Atlanta Journal □ The Atlanta Constitution, page 1-H:

[…]was restored Tyrannosaurus regina.

“As for the relationship between my mother-in-law and us. The gentlemen of the press have speculated that the Queen — or Tyrannosaurus Regina, as we affectionately call her sometimes . . .”

1985 November 7, Pete McMartin, “It’s tough being top people”, in The Sun, volume 99, number 306, Vancouver, B.C., page five:

All that image-building and reputation-slaying in the name of democracy, and at the end of it another four years in opposition to the Tory Tyrannosaurus Regina.

1987, Maureen Lipman, Something To Fall Back On, Robson Books, →ISBN, page 185:

When I bat my eyelashes, monks spew away their last chances at Heaven! Nuns and junkies give up their habits for me! I drove the Whore of Babylon out of business! Astarte invented aphrodisiacs just to keep up with me! I am a mink in heat, I am a Tyrannosaurus Regina on the make, I make Jaws look like a Small-Mouthed Bass!

1989, Magistra Batrix/Magus Coyote, “Brag of the Female SubGenius”, in The Stark Fist of Removal, volume 17, No. 41 & 42, The SubGenius Foundation, Inc., pages 44–45:

Yet there we were, helplessly and snugly surrounded by Soup’s hoop, with an old rope snaking upward, ending in the clenched fists of the meanest kid in our solar system . . . Janice Riker, the inhuman replica of Tyrannosaurus Regina.

1990, Robert Newton Peck, Soup’s Hoop, Delacorte Press, →ISBN, page 6:

Does the disgruntled majordomo have nothing nice to say about this tyrannosaurus regina?

1991 March 23, Fern Brooks, “Marlo Thomas ‘Princess of Pain’: Former servant takes his revenge on glamor family”, in Calgary Herald, page E10:

Did you notice how when Tyrannosaurus Regina Thatcher, armed with her memoirs, began to stalk Calamity John Major through the political jungle, not only did they wheel out ‘Tarzan’ Heseltine to come to his aid but also the Conservative answer to Mills and Boon — Lord Jeffrey Archer?

1993 October 14, Olivia W Lockerbie, “Finlay isn’t a mole, he’s an albatross!”, in The Galloway News, page 9:

When we went to the movies, we saw one of two things: dinosaurs, or a film in which women dressed as men or men dressed as women. In short, it was the year of Tyrannosaurus Regina.

1993 December 26, Jay Stone, “1993: Everything that could go wrong …”, in The Ottawa Citizen, page F1:

A snaky neck coiled, and it was coming down at us, and it was all teeth. “Tyrannosaurus Regina,” Aaron whispered. “Cretaceous period. Meat-eater.”

1995, Richard Peck, Lost in Cyberspace, Puffin Books, published 1997, →ISBN, page 15:

Unfortunately, we used to have several candidates for that crown in the early days, and a few such dinosaurs survive. Romance Queens of the genus Tyrannosaurus Regina. But most romance writers are as everyday as Hamburger Helper: hard-working women—and a few brave men—who labor in obscurity to earn five figures, all of them with no more personal pizzazz or prima donna temperament than a sponge mop.

1996, Carole Nelson Douglas, Cat in a Diamond Dazzle: A Midnight Louie Mystery, New York, N.Y.: Forge, →ISBN, page 76:

Sue the Tyrannosaurus Rex (Regina?) is coming soon to a museum near you.

1997 October 17, “Sue T-Rex: Not just another pretty face”, in South Bend Tribune, 125th year, number 223, page A10:

‘Of course,’ Rupert told the Sunday dragon lady on the World at One, Thelma the Tyrannosaurus Regina as they called her in the English Broadcasting Corporation.

1998, Peter Preston, 51st State, Viking, →ISBN, page 209:

AS QUEENSLAND voters approach the ballot boxes like so many stegosaurus heading for the watering hole, the tyrannosaurus regina of Australian politics, Ms Pauline Hanson, has revealed her arts policy to the nation.

1998 June 13, Simon Hughes, “Week’s End”, in The Age, page 28:

When one of the popular, rich girls got called out during lunch, it signaled we were all in trouble — rich and popular, average and smart, geeky and just plain invisible — all of us were suitable prey for the roving band of Tyrannosaurus Reginas.

2004 March 14, Karla DeLuca, “The ‘Terminator’ wore a dress in 7th grade”, in The Marshall News Messenger, volume 127, number 288, page 2A:

The biogenetically engineered Tyrannosaurus regina of Jurassic Park (1993) was only the most eagerly awaited and attended of a slew of monstrous women who ruled the nation’s movie screens in the 1980s and 1990s. The two decades brought forth dozens like her: the rapacious queen of Aliens (1986), the scheming sea-witch Ursula of The Little Mermaid (1989),[…]

2005, Joshua David Bellin, Framing Monsters: Fantasy Film and Social Alienation, Carbondale, Ill.: Southern Illinois University Press, →ISBN, page 107:

WAS it Tyrannosaurus rex or Tyrannosaurus regina? Until now, telling the tyrant-lizard kings from their queens has been pure guesswork. But the discovery of an unusual type of bone in a T. rex femur[…]

“Meaning what?” sniffled the dinosaur snottily into the fluffy white mantle of her nice, big, thick fur coat with purple bits all over it. “Well, meaning you’re one better than just a silly old t rex; you’re a tyrannosaurus regina!”

2005 July, Jonathan Reed-Stuart, Cybersaur! The Adventures of Chloe & George, the Internet Dinosaur, volume I, →ISBN, page 105:

Just short of the overturned vehicle, Tyrannosaurus rex stopped and sniffed the air, suspecting a trap—food was not supposed to give up quite so easily as this. Tyrannosaurus regina, however, was less fearful. She charged as the driver clambered up out of the capsized yellow hulk, slid to the ground, and fled across the field toward the crest of the knoll.

2006, Steven Utley, Howard Waldrop, “Crab”, in Deborah Layne, Jay Lake, editors, Polyphony, volume 6, Wheatland Press, →ISBN, page 134:

The film’s [Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs] plot, if one can call it that, involves the return of the Tyrannosaurus Regina to reclaim her hatchlings and take Sid to a lush, tropical underworld so different from Sid’s familiar icy territory.

2009 July 1, Carrie Rickey, “‘Ice Age’ franchise: Melting, melting …”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer, 181st year, number 31, page E4:

He described Lynda as a spoiled and lethal “Tyrannosaurus Regina” with a red rictus smile and a “death-lizard voice,” alternately screaming at him and utterly dependent on the veneer of class she thought he gave them despite his towering ineptitude as a butler.

2011, Michael Gross, Unreal Estate: Money, Ambition, and the Lust for Land in Los Angeles, New York, N.Y.: Broadway Books, →ISBN, page 481:

Wake up from your history dream of echoing terror screams and share your song name with these lost children so I open my eyes to see Her glowing face and her sweet song rings my heart so alive I leap and twirl and somersault clapping my hands in drumming rhythm on tingling spine handsprings of hope to catch up with angels running swift in fluttering robes through tangled forests of grumbling oaks as we dodge dinosaur legs through endless halls of Jewel Cathedral where Tyrannosaurus Regina Demon Queen sits on Lotus Disk that twirls petal propellers to soar among stars over our small world.

2017, Simon Albert Craig Seamount, Gothiniad, →ISBN, page 267:

In her mind, she’s Tyrannosaurus regina crossed with a medieval witch.

2018, Ruth Hamilton, For the Love of Liverpool, Pan Books, published 2019, →ISBN:

(often humorous and figurative) A female Tyrannosaurus rex.


cannaphobia

In 1934, three years before Congress approved the Marihuana Tax Act (a de facto ban), the Times reported that Harry J. Anslinger, who was instrumental in stirring up cannaphobia as head of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics (FBN), "is investigating the use by school children in Cleveland and other areas of marihuana, […]"

2014 August 4, Jacob Sullum, “'Mexican, Crazed by Marihuana, Runs Amuck With Butcher Knife': Highlights from the anti-pot files of The New York Times”, in Reason:

Despite attending University of California Berkeley at a time when drugs were rampant, Vaughn-Knox had no experience with drug use of any kind. In fact, she said, she had “cannaphobia.” She made up her mind to get the education she needed to be comfortable and knowledgeable in the medicinal use of cannabis.

2019 October 30, Shaun A. Pennington, “Physicians Say Cannabis Therapy is Not Religion, It’s Science”, in The St. Thomas Source:

Despite the differences, she said some initiatives she spearheaded in Portland are relevant to her new job, like the relief fund, which became a lifeline for cannabis businesses during the pandemic. Her office also created a Cannabis Empowerment Day to show support for the legal industry and combat what she called persistent “cannaphobia.”

2022 October 12, Ashley Southall, “New York City’s First Cannabis Boss Wants to Combat ‘Cannaphobia’”, in The New York Times:

(informal) The fear of, or aversion to, the use or legalization of cannabis.


summer grape

Vitis labrusca
Vitis labrusca#Translingual

A grape of species Vitis labrusca, native to the Eastern U.S.; a fox grape.


green out

en-verb

green out (third-person singular simple present greens out, present participle greening out, simple past and past participle greened out)

greens out (present singular third-person)
greening out (participle present)
greened out (participle past)
greened out (past)

From the association of marijuana with the colour green.

"I knew maybe four people who had 'greened out' in the cafeteria," said a recent graduate.

2013 September 30, Bridget Forbes, “Cocaine, pot used by Winnipeg kids at younger ages”, in CBC:

Grinspoon finishes with some sage advice on the best way to avoid greening out: "Keep the doses low and know yourself. If it happens to you, try to do a postmortem on what happened, like: 'Was there alcohol involved? Was there nicotine involved?' Was I overtired? Did I take five puffs when I usually take two puffs?'"

2022 April 20, Ross Buchanan, “Why You Sometimes Feel Sick or Vomit After Smoking Weed”, in Vice:

Either way, by the middle of our conversation, she knew about how I woke up crying the night before because I dreamed of a mischief of rats living under my bed, that I'm in my "I-love-men era," how I’m grateful that I greened out on edibles and dissociated for two weeks because I think that it was the catalyst for my ego death […]

2022 April 29, “Girls and their boobs — in that order”, in Yale Daily News:

(slang) To feel unwell or get sick as a result of using an excessive amount of cannabis.


green out

Alcohol's role as a diuretic increases the risk for dehydration. Throw in some pot and your risk of dehydration increases, especially if you vomit during a green out.

2022 October 7, Jocelyn Solis-Moreira, “Mixing Weed And Alcohol? Crossfading Does This To Your Body”, in Discover Magazine:


fire moss

A species of moss (Ceratodon purpureus), also known as redshank or purple horn toothed moss.


jazz cabbage

They were looking at the helicopter and the house, no doubt wondering if Snoop Dogg had come to the beach to smoke a little jazz cabbage and snack on Pop-Tarts.

2020 August 4, Robert Pobi, Under Pressure: A Lucas Page Novel, Minotaur Books, →ISBN:

[…] poker tournaments and, best of all, sexy tattooed budtenders to serve you the finest jazz cabbage Barça has to offer. This is all thanks to a loophole in Spanish law. In the mid-1990s, the smoky backroom of a Barcelona comic bookstore called Makoki was the site of such radical debates as whether Batman could beat Wolverine and how you could legally smoke pot.

2020 August 18, Niko Vorobyov, Dopeworld: Adventures in the Global Drug Trade, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN:

Smoking Hitler’s jazz cabbage. Toking on the only green plant a true Scotsman should ever allow to enter his body (salad is for the Tories).

2021 October 12, Daniel Sloss, Everyone You Hate Is Going to Die: And Other Comforting Thoughts on Family, Friends, Sex, Love, and More Things That Ruin Your Life, Knopf, →ISBN, page 123:

That other well-known vice—how about the wacky tobacky, the sticky icky, the jazz cabbage, the Sweet Mary Jane? (Yes, I’ve hung out with my relatives in the US. And no, I don't smoke that stuff, but I think the American slang names for it are hilarious.)

2022 October 10, Elly Thuy Nguyen, Dating Vietnamese Women, Elly Thuy Nguyen:

Jazz cabbage in any form is extremely illegal in Taiwan, even if you have a prescription or a doctor’s note, so don't bring that stuff in. Cigarettes are really, really bad for you, but you can bring in up to two hundred cigarettes[…]

2023 May 3, Cindy Liu, Loving Taipei: The Local Travel Guide to Taipei, Taiwan, Taiwan Guide Publishing:


he-elephant

At a word from Aslan, the He-Elephant, the Ravens, and all the rest of them drew aside.


foxess

The fox said he must stay with his foxess, who was in a delicate way, and one of the little ones had been out too late at a hen-roost, and had caught a very bad cold.

Well, you know what goes with the fox–the foxess, or the foxina.

1903, James Lane Allen, The Mettle of the Pasture, page 78:


table grape

table grapes (plural)
tablegrape (alternative)

Any variety of grape especially suited for eating at the table, as opposed to winemaking; usually, its suitability has been imparted by selective breeding (as for example to maximize sweetness, flavor, or hardiness for shipping/distribution).

csemegeszőlő

a grape grown for eating rather than for making wine


reticuloperitonitis

hardware disease
hardware disease#English

(veterinary medicine) Inflammation of the reticulum and the peritoneum in ruminants, which is usually caused by, part of, and metonymically synonymous with hardware disease.

hardware disease

usually although not invariably synonymous


conscutum

Hard tick's shield-like plate (in males).


sebsi

sebsis (plural)
sbassa (plural)
sibsi (alternative)

Borrowed from Moroccan Arabic سبسي (sabsi).

bor+

A traditional Moroccan cannabis pipe with a narrow bowl and fine metal screen.


parafoulbrood

Parafoulbrood is extremely infectious, apparently being readily transmitted by robbing, drifting, and by the exchange of brood or honey from infected colonies.

1933, Experiment Station Record, volume 69, page 560:

Determination of causative organisms of European foulbrood and parafoulbrood needs investigation.

1951, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture, Committee Prints (issue 3, page 2563)

At times nearly all brood diseases (American foulbrood, European foulbrood, parafoulbrood, sacbrood) were thought to represent a single malady. European and American foulbroods were especially confused.

2012, Edward Steinhaus, Insect Pathology V2: An Advanced Treatise, page 553:


Frankenthal

Synonym of Trollinger (“German grape variety”)


babooness

The aunt is a skinny old hag, with sharp eyes, a great deal of frizzy grey hair, that looks like a tangled mass of tow on a distaff, a turned-up nose, with large nostrils, and two rows of very perfect grinning teeth, like a monkey’s. Indeed, she principally resembles a middle-aged babooness; she is active, strong, and upright in her figure, about fifty years old.

1854 January, “St. Januarius’ to St. Constantius”, in Bentley’s Miscellany, volume XXXV, London: Richard Bentley, […], page 139:

‘Fred.’ need n’t send us any monkeys: we are afraid of them. A babooness fell in love with us once, at Barnum’s Museum: in fact, she became so much attached to us, that it was as much as we could do to get away from the affectionate ‘creetur!’

1859 March, “Editor’s Table”, in The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, volume LIII, number 3, New York, N.Y.: John A. Gray, […], page 328:

Rev. G[ilbert]. Haven, in the Christian Advocate, reports a visit to the slave quarters connected with the estate, from which we extract the following:— / “[…] I asked the mother, (dam, perhaps I ought to say, madam somebody will some time say,) ‘Who do you belong to?’ ‘Mrs. Lee.’ ‘Are you a member of the church?’ ‘Yes, the Baptist.’ ‘How many children have you?’ (Pardon me for using the word children; she talked and acted so much like a Christian mother, I didn’t like to say ‘young ones.’) ‘Seven.’ ‘Do you expect to be free?’ ‘Yes, sir; in about a year our time is up.’ ‘Do you want to be free?’ ‘Yes, sir, I do.’ ‘What for?’ ‘Because I do.’ Didn’t that reason show the woman as much as the babooness? Not being acquainted with the latter’s method of reasoning, I cannot be sure, but it struck me as a very familiar and conclusive answer.[…]”

1861 August 23, “Gen. Lee’s Negro Quarters”, in Lewiston Daily Evening Journal, volume 1, number 107, Lewiston, Me., page [2], columns 3–4:

[…] these same wild dogs being in the habit of constantly harassing any unlucky baboon or babooness that they found alone, besides having stolen into the village of the baboons at night, when dogs can see better than baboons, and killed and eaten several baboonies who were sleeping with their mothers.

1864, “King Lion”, in S[amuel] O[rchart] Beeton, editor, The Boy’s Own Volume of Fact, Fiction, History, and Adventure, London: S. O. Beeton, […], chapter XXIII (I attend the great assembly—The lions think my rifle a portion of myself—I resign the office of royal archiver, &c.—[…]), pages 476–477:

She is not your wife, she is not even a woman; she was not in her conception divine, she is purely animal; she is the babooness of the land of Nod, she is the female of Cain: slay her!

1873, Alexandre Dumas fils, “Advice to a Son; Love, Marriage, etc.”, in George Vandenhoff, transl., Man-Woman; or, The Temple, the Hearth, the Street, Philadelphia, Pa., New York, N.Y., Boston, Mass., page 106:

Alas for the days when my baboon ancestral / In Japanese woods from the lithe limb was pendant, / Instructing, kind hearted, each babooness vestal / How best to achieve for herself a descendant.

1882 March 3, “The Devil’s Dictionary”, in The Wasp, volume VIII, number 292, San Francisco, Calif., page 134, column 3:

Saturday was always a holiday, and each of us had a barrowful of nuts as pocket-money, so most of the fellows used to spend their time guzzling at the tuck-shop, which was kept by a lame old babooness in a little clump of bushes not far off; and a nice business it must have been to her, for her customers generally stole twice as much as they bought!

1883, Ascott R. Hope [pseudonym; Robert Hope Moncrieff], “The Day after the Holidays”, in Evenings Away from Home: A Modern Miscellany of Entertainment for Young Masters and Misses, London: John Hogg, […], pages 188–189:

Uttering plaintive little cries, the “babooness” trotted back, sniffing the ground as though trying to find the trail of the lost one, and, having arrived opposite the tree which protected the two hunters, she stopped, and seemed to be staring straight at it.

1909, H. W. G. Hyrst [pseudonym; Sidney Harry Wright], “Adventures among the Great Monkeys of the South and South-East”, in Adventures among Wild Beasts: Romantic Incidents & Perils of Travel, Sport, and Exploration throughout the World, Philadelphia, Pa.: J. B. Lippincott Company; London: Seeley & Co. Limited, page 110:

According to the jar-us theory of the descent of man which I read not long ago, and which jarred me considerably, Almighty God made the first baboons in the Garden of Eden. Adam was the baboons^([sic]) and Eve was the babooness, and God commanded them not to eat of the fruit of one particular tree—probably a cocoanut tree—but the serpent tempted them and they did eat.

1909 January 2, Ricardo, “Vagaries of Pseudo Scientists”, in The Intermountain Catholic, volume 10, number 12, Salt Lake City, Ut., Denver, Colo., page 5, column 3:

I WUZ out ter de Parker Karnival Kumpany’s layout terday, and say, bo, you orter see all de anymules wot dey got. Lines, tagers, monks, baboonesses; everyting wot dey is in de anymule line is dere.

1912 April 5, “Mike Huff’s Weather”, in The Leavenworth Post, volume VII, number 198, Leavenworth, Kan., page 1, column 4:

No Hags were there to sympathize, / So Eve grew pale and thin— / Until she called, to hear her lies, / The Baboonesses in. / The Baboons—who were only men— / They got it hot and soon; / They sympathized with Adam then— / They did, to a baboon. […] And so to-day, you’ll find it true, / Where pampered wives are found, / They lie about their husbands to / The Baboonesses round. / They leave the broken plates and let / The fowls roost on the shelves, / Till men (they’re only baboons yet) / Fall out amongst themselves. / The human Baboonesses stir / The muck of married life, / And force the poisoned cup on her— / “The poor ill-treated wife”! / Until she takes the case to court, / Assisted to the tune / Of dirty Costs by any sort / Of legalized baboon.

1917 June, Henry Lawson, edited by Colin Roderick, Henry Lawson: Collected Verse, volumes 3 (1910–1922), Angus and Robertson, published 1969, pages 228–229, lines 49–56 and 65–80:

But the uther nite I bloze into the Savoy Theayter to see these heer ejakated munkeys and baboons […] I cooden’t notis no striking rezemblance between Marry the acktoress and Marry the babooness, but it mite of bin becauz I was prejidist.

However, finding a lovely for a male baboon isn’t so easy, and it may be some time before a suitable one can be discovered. Even then, the matter of a dowry will have to be arranged. So, it appears that Tommie, however lonely, will have to spend a few more months in his bachelor quarters before the sunshine of a babooness’ company will come to cheer his solitude.

1938 September 11, Frank Drake, “Tommie, Bachelor Baboon, To Get Mate: Zoo Officials To Brighten Life of Veteran (and Grumpy) Inmate”, in The Atlanta Constitution, volume LXXI, number 91, Atlanta, Ga., page four A:

Picasso, among his superb illustrations to Buffon’s ‘Natural History’ has just such a baboon that is a marvel of exact observation and of insight. And they treat their females rough. The babooness is kept in her right place, that is to say she lets the poor male show off because she knows that she has something she can trade for what the male has fought for.

1950, Alan Houghton Brodrick, Pillars of Hercules: The Iberian Scene, Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) Ltd, page 46:

“There was a blue baboon,” I might begin, / “Who opened a swank saloon,” he’d continue, / “In fact, it was a salon,” I’d say, / “Where the elite conversed with élan,” / “About topics essential to man,” / “And the baboonesses ate flan,” / “And gossiped like devious hens,” / “And felt pure and religious and cleansed.”

Run forever and a day the camcorder tape of L.A. cops beating that black thug, who has now sold his life story to a film company, but keep the ferocious antics of those Detroit baboonesses under wraps.

1991 August, “[Inklings] Selective TV News”, in Instauration, volume 16, number 9, page 19, column 2:

Consider the baboon in his cage. Watch how he dons his virility to please his babooness, see how he beats his chest like jungle drums, observe how he struts with head held high like the colonel of a parachute regiment. (He strode round the room, hammering on his chest to be a baboon. With head held high, he looked elegant and innocent, young and carefree.) Then he rattles the bars of his cage, and the melting, captivated babooness realizes that he is a brute, that he is assertive, that he has Character, that she can rely on him.

1995, Albert Cohen, translated by David Coward, Belle du Seigneur, Viking, →ISBN, page 354:

Old lionesses and baboonesses live for only a few years after they stop reproducing, long enough just to ensure that their last-born offspring receive the mothering they need.

2009, David P. Barash, Judith Eve Lipton, “[The Menopause Mystery] Good Grandmothers, Part I”, in How Women Got Their Curves and Other Just-So Stories: Evolutionary Enigmas, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 159:

When the only thing that gets done is Boucicault or Uncle Tom or their ilk, then it’s slander, and the fact that both plays were so popular, made so much money, makes the case that the appetite for Black baboons and baboonesses is insatiable. […] In one sense, the tragic mulatto heroine is baboon—babooness, if you will—since she has to deny, or at least denigrate, her Blackness in order to be tragic.

2020, Clifford Mason, Macbeth in Harlem: Black Theater in America from the Beginning to Raisin in the Sun, New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, →ISBN:


monkeyess

Here’s monkey Wieland, the youth of Old Drury, / Whose acting alone filled the manager’s purse; / His ma wa’n’t a monkeyess, I can assure ye, / But he certainly must have had one for his nurse. / Dear creatures: we can’t do without one, &c.

1828, “The Monkey; or, Dear Creatures, We Can’t Do Without Them”, in The Universal Songster; or, Museum of Mirth: Forming the Most Complete, Extensive, and Valuable Collection of Ancient and Modern Songs in the English Language: […], volume III, London: […] Jones and Co. […], page 98, column 1:

The gown of the small shopkeeper’s wife may have been made by the dressmaker of the duchess, and the former may be the more ladylike woman of the two; but being without the substance that warrants the show, she is a monkeyess.

1854 December, “Monkeyism”, in Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine, Edinburgh: Sutherland and Knox; […], page 749, column 1:

I say if this theory be correct, and man was originally a monkey and woman a monkeyess, then the job was not such a big thing after all—for any enterprising Yankee could, for a small consideration, have half a dozen generations of mixed varieties running in less than a month manufactured out of our Iowa soil.

1872 January 18, Paddy Miles, “Hygiene and Darwinianism”, in The Weekly Oskaloosa Herald, volume 22, number 19, Oskaloosa, Ia., page [2], column 5:

Darwin’s Monkey.—If Adam’s father was a monkey, / And Eve’s mother a monkeyess; / Then mastiffs firstly sprang from poodles, / A kennel of sprightly yankey doodles; / And that accounts for style and dress.

1873 October 18, J. W. B., “Quaint Home Proverbs”, in Appleton Crescent, volume XXI, number 18, Appleton, Wis., front page, column 8:

Monkeys are the best mimickers, the more civilized and refined imitate them in extracting labial sweetness from the monkeyesses.

1877 November 15, Amicus, “A Leatherwood Melange, Containing Little Sense and Much Nonsense, Wherein Ah Sin Portrays His Beauideal”, in The Pulaski Citizen, volume 19, number 46, Pulaski, Tenn., page [3], column 6:

It is these leaping tree-snakes probably which have given to monkeys their frantic terror at sight of a snake; and if in the anthropoid period any superior monkey and monkeyess had gained a securer place, defended by precipices from quadrupedal beasts, they might still have found one of these Leapers in their simial Eden.

1878 July 20, “African Magnates in London: The King of Bonny and the Liberian Premier Seeing European Civilization”, in The Daily Gazette, volume LXXXVI, number 292, Wilmington, Del., page [3], column 4:

One of the rajahs of India spent 100,000 rupees in the marriage of two monkeys. […] It was twelve days before the monkey and monkeyess were free from their round of gay attentions.

1894 January 3, “Rev. Dr. Talmage; The Brooklyn Divine’s Sunday Sermon. Subject: “The Burning of the Dead.””, in Marion Record, volume 4, number 1, Marion, N.C., page [3], column 3:

Three urchins were feeding a monkey and a monkeyess candy.

1894 June 25, “Found the Lost Link. The Schenley Park Reporter Establishes Mr. Darwin’s Theory. Gusy Like a U. S. Senator. Two Female Human Buzzards and a Juvenile Fox. Odious Comparisons at the Zoo.”, in The Pittsburgh Post, page 2, column 5:

Here is what Charles Dana Gibson, the famous artist, thinks of the American girl: “They are, beyond question, the loveliest of all their sex. Evolution has selected the best things for preservation as the man and woman have climbed up from the monkey and the monkeyess.[…]”

1911 April 3, “American Girls the Most Beautiful”, in The Hattiesburg News, volume XV, number 73, Hattiesburg, Miss., page three:

[…] so after dinner, while the big man was otherwise engaged, O’Praty—who owned a pet monkeyess named Lutchmi—decided to pack her off that night to the temple.

1913, H. Hervey, “The Globe-Trotter”, in The European in India, London: Stanley Paul & Co […], page 93:

The face into which the baby monkey looks is such that one may fancy himself peering through the wrong end of a telescope at some feminine human being. The resemblance is still further emphasized by the whiteness of the little face, its smoothness and the pinkness of the cheeks. The secret of those roses? Rouge! Actually feminine rouge! And daintily pencilled eyebrows! And a beauty spot, scintillant below the coquettish feminine eyes! Talk about the eternal feminine! There it is, continued below—or is it above?—species. Does the monkeyess apply all this feminine beautifying? Here is a secret that in courtesy to the wife of the manager is not betrayed. But every one may do some guessing.

1915 January 17, “Monkey Mother Love. Rouged and Pencilled Little Foster-Parent Fondles Affectionate Baby at Society Circus.”, in The Los Angeles Times, part V, page 16, column 5:

Why should we monkey with the interstital^([sic]) glands of any monkey? What have we to do with foolish young monkey? Or with a monkey that may look, and be, Bolshevik? If it happened to be a decent, settled, middle-aged monkey, with about $100,000 in bonds of the Victory issue, we’d be glad to consider it. But with a fresh young monkey without even a cocoanut in the cache, and his fortune to make, all the while embarrassed by losing time in chasing from tree to tree after giggling and tittering young monkeyesses, not for us.

1921 January 8, “Russian Scientist Has New Scheme for Growing Young: By Grafting Interstitial Glands of Monkey Upon Old People, Dr. Voronoff Says That He Can Restore Feelings of Twenty-one Years of Age”, in St. Louis Saturday Night, volume one, number 34, page 5, column 5:

Somebody had left about a copy of a French romance called “Les Aventures de Polydore Marasquin.” It was of things that happened to a man in a kingdom of monkeys. It went very well, with an occasional use of the dictionary, until I discovered that the gentleman was about to engage himself to a very attractive monkeyess. I gave up the book in disgust, but I have since discovered that there have been lately several imitators of these adventures, which I think were written by an author named Léon Gozlan.

1922, Maurice Francis Egan, “My Boyhood Reading”, in Confessions of a Book-Lover, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, page 13:

[…] man may admit that his grandfathers and grandmothers were mon[keys a]nd monkeyesses if he want^([sic]) to; that is his privilege.

1923 May 17, “ […] Advertiser and Mr. Bryan”, in The Progressive Age, Scottsboro, Ala.: James S. Benson, page [4]:

In a few weeks, Mike sickened and died and not long after Pete followed him on the long trail. Mona plainly showed her sorrow, according to the caretakers; she hasn’t been the same monkeyess since then.

1926 March 27, “Mona’s Mourning Days Are Over; She Cuts Monkey Shines Now”, in Kenosha Evening News, volume XXXII, number 121, Kenosha, Wis., page one, column 6:

Now the white man is a sort of extraordinary white monkey that, by cunning, has learnt lots of semi-magical secrets of the universe, and made himself boss of the show. Imagine a race of big white monkeys got up in fantastic clothes, and able to kill a man by hissing at him ; able to leap through the air in great hops, covering a mile in each leap; able to transmit his thoughts by a moment’s effort of concentration to some great white monkey or monkeyess, a thousand miles away: and you have, from our point of view, something of the picture that the Indian has of us.

1927, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “The Mozo”, in Mornings in Mexico, London: Martin Secker, page 58:

Want to know what the people in Washington call the Capitol? “The Monkey House!” But it’s all in fun for they get considerable out of that monkey house and they do not care to antagonize the head monkies^([sic]) . . . and monkeyesses.

1933 April 13, G. C. T., “Little Stories About Washington”, in Tri-County Press, volume 77, number 23, Polo, Ill., page two, column 2:

“My dear, dear husband,” the monkeyess cried. “Why don’t you ever take me leaping from tree to tree any more?” Hamish, the monkey husband, gave a tremendous grunt. “What are you doing, dear husband?” “I’m trying to evolve.” The monkeyess made a face. “I bet it was that blonde that got over the line just before evolution stopped — I bet you want to be with her.[…]”

1939 February 14, John Rhodes Sturdy, “Under Our Roof”, in The Gazette, volume CLXVIII, number 38, Montreal, Que., page 3, column 2:

Next to a lamentable story concerning the untimely passing of Able, the Kansas-born monkeyess, who had no trouble with outer space but couldn’t survive the tender ministrations of an anesthetist, was another of doubtful “feeling” in our favorite Kansas newspaper.

1959 June 4, “NewsBeaMs”, in Shawnee News-Star, volume 65, number 41, Shawnee, Okla., page 10:

When they entered the monkeys’ meeting, / They both were given a fine greeting. / The man of virtue looked at them. / The emperor then questioned him / About his court – Now did he find / That it was lovely and refined. / To this the honest man returned, / That they were monkeys he discerned. / ‘Of me and of my wife, let’s hear – / And of my son, whom you see here – / What do you think? Now nothing hide!’ / ‘Here’s how it seems,’ the man replied. / ‘You’re monkey and she’s monkeyess – / Ugly, wicked, hideous. As for your son, all folks can see / He’s just a very small monkey.’ / Then to the comrade who was base / The monkey posed the selfsame case: / The same inquiry word for word.

1987, Marie de France, translated by Harriet Spiegel, Fables, Toronto, Ont., Buffalo, N.Y., London: University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, page 117, lines 27–45:


straight cigarette

en-noun

straight cigarette (plural straight cigarettes)

The star of Netflix’s Wednesday, 20-year-old Jenna Ortega (another Gen Z actor) was recently papped holding an iPhone and chuffing on a straight cigarette (the fact that this was a pap photo is all the more throwback).

2023 June 16, Daisy Jones, “Cool, sexy and stinking of smoke: why are TV dramas giving cigarettes a comeback?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

A ready-made cigarette, as opposed to a rollup.


ouid

(Internet slang) Filter-avoidance spelling of weed (“marijuana”).


bloedpens

(South Africa) A form of dysentery affecting lambs and other animals.


waccy baccy

"I'm smoking what I can get," says Dorthy Parker, "'Strange Fruit,' or what they are called." Well, they could be called Weird Weeds or Waccy Baccy.

[1944 November 26, “Paragraphics”, in News and Record, Greensboro, page 32:


choofer

From choof (“to smoke marijuana”) + -er.

The good news for north coast choofers is that those believing using cannabis should be a criminal offence stands at 32 per cent, while support for it being legalised or decriminalised has risen to 43 per cent in 2016 from 32 per cent in 1990.

2016 December 28, Michael McDonald, “Electorate takes softer line than pollies”, in The Byron Shire Echo, volume 31, number 29, Mullumbimby: Echo Publications Pty Ltd, page 5:

(Australia, slang) A person who habitually smokes marijuana.


Hereford disease

(veterinary medicine) Synonym of grass tetany


grass tetany

(veterinary medicine) A metabolic disease of ruminants, involving magnesium deficiency, and usually occurring after grazing on pastures of rapidly growing grass.


drakelet

The copulatory organ looks like a pinkish root tip and its presence denotes a drakelet. In the cloaca of a ducklet no such organ can be seen.

1932, The Harper Adams Utility Poultry Journal, volume 17, page 553:


Verdello

Verdello (countable and uncountable, plural Verdellos)

Borrowed from Italian verdello, from the dark green color of its berries.

Thus when sampling Verdello grapevines, the likelihood of picking up a vine that really isn't Verdello is high, and the skill of the ampelographer becomes of paramount importance.

2014, Ian D'Agata, Native Wine Grapes of Italy, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 21:

An Italian grapevine variety that is grown mostly in the Umbria region of central Italy.


Dornfelder

en-proper noun

Dornfelder (countable and uncountable, plural Dornfelder)

w:Staatliche Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt für Wein- und Obstbau Weinsberg

(uncountable) A dark-skinned grape variety used for red wine, developed as a hybrid (Helfensteiner × Heroldrebe) by August Herold in 1955 at the Staatliche Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt für Wein- und Obstbau Weinsberg (State Education and Research Institute for Viticulture and Pomology Weinsberg) in Württemberg, Germany.

Dornfelder

red-wine grape variety from the Württemberg region of Germany


EHD

epizootic hemorrhagic disease
epizootic hemorrhagic disease#English

(veterinary medicine, agriculture) Initialism of epizootic hemorrhagic disease.


humpbacked elves

Any of various mosses of the genus Buxbaumia.


Missouri grape

Vitis palmata, a New World species of tall, climbing lianas in the grape family, native to the south-central and southeastern United States.


spideress

What shrieks and groans of widow spideresses and orphaned spiderets must haunt his guilty slumbers!

1830 September 11, Horace Guilford, “The King of the Spiders”, in The Olio; or, Museum of Entertainment, volume VI, number XII, London: […] Shackell and Carfrae, […] Joseph Shackell […], published 1831, page 187, column 1:

In one crotch of the old peach-tree, just by the wall, sat a second cousin of the little eight-eyed fellow we had left up stairs, with her web spread on the most geometric model, and a young and promising family of spiders and spideresses practising gymnastics in the fairy rigging; […]

1836 September, J. H. P., “Spiders and their Moral”, in The Western Messenger; Devoted to Religion and Literature, volume II, number 2, Louisville, Ky.: […] [T]he Western Unitarian Association; Boston, Mass.: James Munroe & Co. […], published 1837, page 122:

Those cauliflower-heads increase the liquor-longing of the parched wayfarer; and in the quietest corners of these everywhere almost-noiseless thoroughfares there are most private little “publics” that seem expressly made for thirsty souls too modest or too moral to dive into crowded bars: snug little bars, with unslopped metal counters gleaming like silver, and engine-handles as white as an old maid’s just-washed best china, that it would be a shame to suffer to continue customless; and behind those bars comfortable-looking middle-aged human she-spiders, or, peradventure, pretty young spideresses, that wake up from their naps and resume their netting as the bashfully arid human bluebottle buzzes by, and invite him with irresistible smiles of welcome to walk into their parlours, or, at any rate, to do a little Cooper out of those mirror-like pewters, standing.

1867 October, Richard Rowe, “In and About Lower Thames Street”, in The Argosy: A Magazine of Tales, Travels, Essays, and Poems, volume IV, number V, London: Strahan & Co., […], page 389:

There were numerous attractions. There was the great American cobweb, with the Misses Spickett and Ellman as spideresses.

1905 December 8, “Young Leaguer’s Sale of Work. Bright Scenes at the Club Hall.”, in The Sevenoaks Chronicle, and Kentish Advertiser, number 1378, Sevenoaks, Kent, page 5, column 5:

The suitor of the commonest of all the Aranea, Meta segmentata, is wise but certainly not dashing. He does not drum on the web or advertise his presence at all; he hides at the edge and waits until he sees the object of his desire engaged in killing some prey and then comes up behind her and attempts union. It is a far-sighted plan, for not only is she busy at the time but she also has by her something to kill and eat and is not likely to go to the trouble of killing additional prey just then. Moreover Meta is one of the few “frigid” spideresses and it probably would be impossible to excite her in any case.

1950, John B[attersby] Crompton Lamburn, “Courting”, in The Life of the Spider, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Company; Cambridge, Mass.: The Riverside Press, published 1951, page 186:

This cup of concentrated bane is lifted to the thesis that the female of the species is more deadly than the male, and molded on the dramatic genius of Nora Kaye. She imparts an air of unholy ritual to the act of crushing her admirers, while the queen (Yvonne Mounsey) and her swarm of spideresses circle round on flashing points, arms raised in attitudes of anathema—like unlovely caricatures of Myrtha and the Wilis in “Giselle.”

1951 September 22, Margaret Lloyd, “[World Drama for Belgrade?—Music in Hollywood—Ballet Theater Season] Glow and Polish Enhance New Works, Old Stand-bys”, in The Christian Science Monitor, volume 43, number 253, Boston, Mass.: The Christian Science Publishing Society, page 12, column 8:

He had written her out of his life except as the daughter of the spider, and here she was, a new and unwanted responsibility, and a sparrow instead of a spideress.

1965, Madeleine L’Engle, The Arm of the Starfish, New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, published 1982, →ISBN, page 155:

They too sported costumes. April Thornleigh – scowling as usual – had come as a spideress. She wore a swirling black-and-yellow cloak, heavy make-up, gold web earrings and a crawling nest of plastic tarantulas in her puffy blonde hair.

2009, Scott Monk, Beyond the Knock-knock Door, Sydney, N.S.W.: Random House Australia, →ISBN, page 46:

She is like a spider who spins her web so tightly that the movement of even the most insignificant creature onto one of its strands sends a clamoring, instantly recognizable vibration. And on an island as small as Nantucket, a spideress does not need to spread her web very far before it encloses virtually everyone.

2014, John Vanderslice, “[King Philip’s War] On Cherry Street”, in Island Fog, New Orleans, La.: Lavender Ink, →ISBN, page 75:


silver vixen

I saw a very dark silver fox slip across the road just in front of me. After a while I discovered that they were a mated pair—the biscuit-colored dog fox and the smaller silver vixen.

1968, The foxes of Beachy Cove, page 25:


tiercel gentle

en-noun

tiercel gentle (plural tiercel gentles or tiercels gentle)

tiercel gentles (plural)
tiercels gentle (plural)


she-fox

fixen, This is the name of a ſhee-fox, otherwiſe & more anciently foxin. It is in reproche applyed to a woman whoſe nature and condition is thereby compared to the ſhee-fox.

1605, Richard Verstegen, A Restitution of Decayed Intelligence.:

[…]he was begotten of the Old Dragon, upon a ſhe Fox, or Vixon ; yet for all his Cunning, he was Tryed, found guilty, and Beheaded;[…]

A Lioneſs being upbraided by a She-Fox, that ſhe was not Fruitful, bringing forth but one young at a time; anſwered, 'Tis true, but what I am then delivered of, is a Lion. / Excellence conſists not in Quantity, but Quality.

1689, Philip Ayres, Esq., Mythologia Ethica: or, Three Centuries of Æsopian Fables:


drakeling

Good night, darling; take that kiss to your respected mother, and tell her with my compliments that we can’t afford to make ducks and drakes of the romance of our little pet’s life: she will hatch those birds for herself in due time, and remain cluck-clucking, wisely, but sadly, like a perplexed old hen, when her ducklings and drakelings have unexpectedly taken the water.

1858, “Edith Clarel: A Story from Three Points of View”, in The Money Bag: Literature, Politics, Finance, volume I, number 4, London: Daniel F. Oakey, […], page 232:

Referring to Table 1 it will be seen that if a breeding duck produces 40 marketable progeny each year (and in practice this should be achieved) half of which are ducklings and the other half drakelings, and these birds realise 2s. per lb. live weight, then that breeding duck would return approximately £15 10s. over feeding costs for the 12 months.

1951, Supplement to the Journal of the Department of Agriculture of Western Australia, volume 28, page 216:

Muscovy ducks with ducklings. This is the most popular breed for table purposes. They make weights of up to 5 lb. for ducklings at 13 to 14 weeks, and up to 9 lb. for drakelings at 16 weeks when correctly handled.

1961, Allan A[rthur] McArdle, Poultry Management and Production (Agricultural and Livestock Series), Sydney, N.S.W.: Angus and Robertson, page 563:


hearst

Uncertain. Perhaps related to Middle English hert (“male or female deer”), whence English hart.

cog

(zoology, hunting) A hind in her second or third year.


promarijuana

en-adj

promarijuana (comparative more promarijuana, superlative most promarijuana)

more promarijuana (comparative)
most promarijuana (superlative)

Alternative form: pro-marijuana

Dr. Harvey Powelson […] was highly praised for his promarijuana stand in 1964. Then he was attacked in the press and in person when he changed his views.

2012, Mantak Chia, William U. Wei, Cosmic Nutrition: The Taoist Approach to Health and Longevity:

In favor of, or supporting the use of, marijuana.


snow leopardess

en-noun

snow leopardess (plural snow leopardesses)

snow leopardesses (plural)
snow-leopardess (alternative)

Those were minor variations. Beneath them, no one need tell him, was an extremely determined individual. On that distant morning he had thought she had much in common with a snow leopardess, one of his worst similes. He wondered if anyone had tried to tame her since Gerin died. She was not the sort of woman men left alone.

1970, Simon Harvester, Moscow Road, New York, N.Y.: Walker and Company, published 1971, →ISBN, page 86:

The three snow leopardesses were: Natasha, who was 8 years old at the start of the study and was nulliparous; Chuma, who was 8 years old and had had one litter of cubs; and Omaha 6 who was included in the final two years of the behavioural phase of this study.

1993, Journal of Reproduction and Fertility, volume 98, page 92, column 1:

Domi made a feral sound, half growl and half chuckle. She tensed like a snow leopardess preparing to leap on her prey.

1998 March, James Axler [pseudonym; Mark Ellis], Omega Path (Outlanders; 4), Don Mills, Ont.: Gold Eagle Books, Worldwide Library, page 190:


FVRCP

(veterinary medicine) Initialism of feline viral rhinotracheitis, calicivirus, and panleukopenia (“a vaccine for cats against these three diseases”).


immunity gap

The entry of E. coli in a protein-rich medium into the small intestine, which has a damaged surface from the switch to solid feed, at a time when the pig's immune response is normally low (the immunity gap), presents a high risk for a secretory diarrhea.

2007, Neville G. Gregory, Temple Grandin, Animal Welfare and Meat Production, page 104:

The actual age at which the immunity gap develops depends on the amount of maternally derived antibody (MDA) transferred to each kitten.

2008, E. A. Chandler, R. M. Gaskell, C. J. Gaskell, Feline Medicine and Therapeutics, page 15:

Prior to this, young animals face an 'immunity gap': passive immunity is reduced and the animal's own immune system is not yet fully capable of combating pathogens.

2021, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Animal nutrition strategies and options to reduce the use of antimicrobials in animal production, page 11:

(veterinary medicine) The time period during which a young mammal no longer receives effective immunity to diseases from antibodies in its mother's milk but its own immune system is not fully developed.


cowkind

From Middle English cowkynde; equivalent to cow + -kind.


balling gun

It is very easy to misuse the balling gun and cause a serious "choke" in the horse or damage to the back of the throat.

2006, T. A. Landers, Professional Care of the Racehorse, page 253:

Before passing a balling gun into the patient's oral cavity, a quick assessment of the patient's size is mandatory.

2007, Thomas J. Divers, Simon F. Peek, Rebhun's Diseases of Dairy Cattle, page 21:

This instrument is available in various sizes for use in different species. Cattle require a balling gun with a large head and long handle, with a metal or flexible plastic head.

2016, Margi Sirois, Principles and Practice of Veterinary Technology, page 673:

(veterinary medicine) A device for forcing a pill or bolus of medicine down the throat of an animal.


balling-iron

Named for its original use in forcing open the mouth of an animal for balling.

After a due examination of the mouth has been made, and we have selected the tooth to be operated upon, the animal should be restrained by means of a twitch, and a balling-iron ought then to be placed in the mouth . The common open balling-iron will answer the purpose, but the one I would recommend you to use is that invented by Mr. Varnell .

1851, The Veterinarian: A Monthly Journal of Veterinary Science, page 635:

It is necessary at times to give a medicinal ball to a horse, and as few grooms are expert at administering a ball without assistance, a balling-iron affords them that assistance.

1858, James Slight, Robert Scott Burn, Henry Stephens, The Book of Farm Implements and Machines, page 532:

Every groom should know how to give a ball, which is managed either with or without a balling-iron, an instrument which is seldom wanted , and which sometimes occasions considerable mischief to the roof of the horse's mouth .

1873, George Armatage, The horse, page 158:

The man using a balling-iron has, therefore, to guard himself from blows rapidly dealt with the fore hoofs of a desperate animal.

1876, Edward Mayhew, Mayhew's Illustrated Horse Management, page 42:

(veterinary medicine) A piece of shaped metal that forces the mouth of an animal to stay open.


seat out

en-verb

seat out (third-person singular simple present seats out, present participle seating out, simple past and past participle seated out)

seats out (present singular third-person)
seating out (participle present)
seated out (participle past)
seated out (past)

(equestrianism, veterinary medicine) To modify a horseshoe to relieve pressure from the sole.


toadess

Taking a hoe this morning, (could find no spade but the ace,) I exhumed a toadess, perhaps a widow, living all by herself, in underground lodgings, as widows have done, and will do, again and again, till there is no such thing as widowdom in the world.

1854, Benj[amin] F[ranklin] Taylor, “Digging for a Subject”, in January and June: Being Out-Door Thinkings, and Fire-Side Musings. […], New York, N.Y.: Samuel Hueston, […], →OCLC, pages 50–51:

The toad likes cool, moist earth, neither muddy nor dusty, and just after a shower, when the roads are just properly moistened, the little toads and toadesses go forth to promenade and enlarge their acquaintance with the world beyond the cabbage-leaf of their nativity.

1858 October 23, Ecuyer Tranchant [pseudonym], “The Democrat of the Dinner Table”, in Boston Evening Transcript, volume XXIX, number 8740, Boston, Mass., supplement, column 4:

They [toads] lead a very retired and pensive life during the day, behind stun walls, but when twilight begins tew dress for the night, then the toads and toadesses begin to reconnoiter round.

1868 July 24, Josh Billings [pseudonym; Henry Wheeler Shaw], “The Josh Billings Papers. Josh Does Up his Back Correspondence.”, in The Missouri Democrat, volume 16, number 289, St. Louis, Mo., page [3], column 4:

I do know that all the respectable toads and toadesses of my acquaintance always went down in family parties into the water and there brought forth a respectable and legitimate family of tadpoles.

1899 July 27, H. M. Doak, “Doak on Frog and Toad Music”, in The Nashville American, volume XXIII, number 8263, Nashville, Tenn., page 4, column 6:

“A toad’s highest idea of beauty is a toadess;” says another [proverb].

1915, M. V. Srinivasa Aiyangar, An Open Letter to Mrs. Annie Besant: Being a Reply to Her Attacks on Hinduism, Madras: M. C. Narasimhacharya, →OCLC, page 57:

[T]hey […] stuffed their faces into the grass, shaking uncontrollably, silently. What could they see? […] Some animal? ‘And from his queer abode came forth giant toad, a toadess in a bodice.’

1969, Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy, “The Picnic”, in The Centre of the Universe is 18 Baedekerstrasse, London: Hamish Hamilton, published 1985, →ISBN, page 52:

As the saying goes, “I’ve kissed many toadesses in my time, but I finally found a princess.”

1989 February 2, Rick Cairns, “The Other Side: Basic Qualities of Relationsips^([sic])”, in The Seahawk, volume 42, Wilmington, N.C.: University of North Carolina at Wilmington, page 4, column 5:

3 hideous L[on]d[o]n toadesses looking for 3 dashing princes for fun, wine & magik.

1996 May 18–24, “Soulmates”, in The Guide (The Guardian), London, page 57, column 3:

i am not a prince in disguise / i’m merely a toad / looking for a toadess / to undress // rose / taking kindly to a croaking toad / decided / to assist in his search / for an undressed frog

2014 December, Gwynneth Green, “Rose & the Toad”, in Unplugged, Shelbyville, Ky.: Wasteland Press, →ISBN, page 59:


dummy foal

From dummy + foal, due to their tendency to wander aimlessly.

(veterinary medicine, informal) A foal suffering from neonatal maladjustment syndrome.


dummy foal syndrome

From dummy foal + syndrome, due to its sufferers being dubbed dummy foals.

(veterinary medicine, informal) Neonatal maladjustment syndrome.


dung moss

en-noun

dung moss (countable and uncountable, plural dung mosses)


small animal

(veterinary medicine) A cat or dog, as opposed to large or exotic pets.


zebress

“ZEBRESS” COMES TO PARK / The population of the city’s menagerie in Central Park is increasing fast. The increase is due principally to a high birth rate, while yesterday a female zebra, styled by one of the park employes as a “zebress,” arrived from an animal dealer’s place in Germany to become the mate of Paddy, a zebra purchased some months ago. […] The “zebress” is three years old and is a fine specimen.

1913 June 11, New-York Tribune, volume LXXIII, number 24,314, New York, N.Y., page 4, column 1:

The lady now appearing wears a dress of black and white stripes—she might be very properly termed a zebra or zebress—and her sash is of pale, canary silk.

1927, Esther Singleton, “Dolls of To-day”, in Dolls, New York, N.Y.: Payson & Clarke Ltd, page 136:

A male zebra who lives at Livingston park in Jackson longed for love and affection. So lonely did he become that a local hotel sought a mate, presented her to him. Delighted with the selection, zebra and zebress have become friskly,^([sic]) renewed interest in life.

1928 August 2, E. L., “Mississippi Brevities”, in The Lexington Advertiser, volume 91, number 12, Lexington, Miss., page 3, column 2:

zebrass: zebra plus ass—hybrid of zebra and jenny ass or zebress and jackass

1964, Ralph De Sola, Abbreviations Dictionary: Abbreviations, Acronyms, Contractions, Signs & Symbols Defined […], revised edition, New York, N.Y.: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, →LCCN, page 213, column 1:

And the arrows were up and the gangplank down – / And here come the animals afraid to drown! / Through every doorway, entrance and egress, / Come dashing teams, a zebra and zebress, / A tiger and tigress, a gnu and a she-gnu, / A jack and a jenny, a mu and an emu, / A pair of elephants, a brace of rhinoceros, / Two dinosaurus – mostly esophagus, […]

1967, Paul Hiebert, “Jordan Middleduck”, in Willows Revisited, Toronto, Ont.; Montreal, Que.: McClelland and Stewart Limited, page 110:

As Leonie, she obviously loves Morgan, but how can you have a life with a man who keeps seeing you as a gazelle or a lioness or zebress?

1967 January 15, Dick Benke, “Movie Review: ‘Morgan’; Reality, Fantasy Get All Mixed Up”, in Independent Star-News, Pasadena, Calif., page C-8, column 4:

A Grant zebra was acquired to provide sweetness, light, friendship and, possibly, romance for the zoo’s zebress.

1970 March 23, David L. Maulsby, “Zoo’s New Denizens Include An Aoudad (Or Aou-Mom?)”, in The Sun, volume 266, number 45, Baltimore, Md., page C 8, column 1:

“Taking my kid, offspring, heir, bairn in Edinburgh and garcon in Nice to the Washington Zoo today.” “They got everything from A to Z there.” “Aardvarks, acaroids, addax, agouti, alligators, alpaca, antlions, amardillo,^([sic]), aug, auklets, aurochs, areayes …” “He’ll go ape before he gets to the azygous axoloti^([sic]) which as you know is amphibious.” “It’ll be dark, dusk, twilight, eventide before we zero in on the zander, zebra, zebress, zebu, aibet, aoril and zorilla.”

1979 January 19, Hugh Mulligan, “Mulligan’s Stew”, in Evening Express, volume 96, number 82, Portland, Me., page 3, columns 3–4:

A zebress was once introduced to a donkey. / The donkey said darling, I know this sounds funky, / But let’s you and me / Get together; you’ll see / We’ll make us a little zebronkey. / The zebress said cooly,^([sic]) that’s sweet of you, hon, / But we’re species apart, and I really must run.

1983, Jean Morgan, “Crazy Jean Tries a Limerick: On Reading in Darwin of the Zebra Who Refused the Donkey Until He Looked Something Like Her”, in High priestess of Change, Laurinburg, N.C.: St. Andrews Press, →ISBN, page 46:

“You two can start exploring if you like,” I said. “Or wait here in the car. I’m just going to ask her about hosting the garden club buffet.” / “No, let’s beard the lioness in her den,” Dr. Blake said, offering Caroline his arm. / “More like a zebress, don’t you think?” Caroline said.

2009 August, Donna Andrews, Swan for the Money (Meg Langslow Mysteries; 11), New York, N.Y.: Minotaur Books, →ISBN, page 42:

Zebra: I am sooo turned on by your stripes baby! / Zebress: Oh really? Well in that case......... KICK! / Zebra: OW! Let me move on up behind you here. This good for you? / Zebress: KICK! Approach vector too high. Permission to land is DENIED / Zebra: Tower, request permission for fly-by / Zebress: Negative Ghost-Rider, the pattern is full. KICK!

2016, Brian Scott Bowers, “The Passionate Prison, a Zoological Adventure…”, in It’s a Poop Sneeze: From Family Dysfunction & Fast Food Funnies to a “F*cker” in Politics, →ISBN, section 9 (Au Naturale^([sic])), page 152:


multispined

Posterior tibiæ multispined; spines alternately long and short.

1872, F.V. Hayden, Preliminary Report of the United States Geological Survey of Μontana and Portions of Adjacent Territories Being a Fifth Annual Report of Progress, Washington: Government Printing Office, page 437:

It is channeled through multispined copper fins which warm the air and release it into the air ducts of the house.

1946 December, “Trunk-Size Oil-Burning Furnace Heats Five-Room House”, in Popular Mechanics, volume 86, number 6, →ISSN, page 170:

Male red-sided garter snakes have a multispined hemipenis with a sizeable basal spine that is inserted into the female during the reproductive bout.

2024 May 15, Kevin Lee Teather, The Evolution of Sex: Strategies of Males and Females, Oxford University Press, page 131:

(anatomy, zootomy) Of or pertaining to a structure having multiple spines.


benz

Clipping of benzedrine, originally a brand name for amphetamine. Possibly influenced by Benz (short for Mercedes-Benz), alluding to its high speed.

Now from taking all this Benz and scrumpy and stuff, I wasn’t all that bright on remembering where I had been and what I was doing most of the time, and even when people spoke to me it took me about two minutes to register what they had said.

1961, Frank Norman, “A Parrot, a Juke-box and the Benz” (chapter 3), in Stand on Me: A true story of Soho with a glossary of slang, for those who need it, New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, Inc., →LCCN, page 30:

(slang) The drug amphetamine, used recreationally for its stimulant effects.


benners

Probably an alteration of tenners, plural of tenner (“a £10 banknote”).

I'll give your gran a benners for a blowjob / Another ten for her clothes off / She's stiff like a robot / But there ain't nothing I won't want

2007 June 8, Ghetts (lyrics and music), “Menace” (track 5), in Ghetto Gospel, performed by Ghetts:

Coordinate term: scores

"On the phone you said you want a scores, you think I would come all the way here for a benners you prick!!!"

You sold a benners now you think your^([sic]) the best weed man on road 😂

I live a hood life but make it look nice / Come a long way from linking benners on my pushbike

2016 November 20, Trizzy Trapz, Kojo Funds (lyrics and music), “Say My Grace”, performed by Trizzy Trapz ft. Kojo Funds:

(slang, UK) A bag of cannabis worth £10.


petasma

A male genital appendage on the protopodites of some crustaceans.


thelycum

From Ancient Greek θηλυκός (thēlukós, “feminine”).

der

The female genital structure of some shrimp


shine muscat

Borrowed from Japanese シャインマスカット (shain masukatto).

Vitis vinifera
Vitis vinifera#Translingual

a cultivar in the muscat family of grapes made by crossing Akitsu-21 and 'Hakunan' (Vitis vinifera)


ill-thrift

(veterinary medicine) An animal's failure to thrive.


supratympanal

en-adj

supratympanal (comparative more supratympanal, superlative most supratympanal)

more supratympanal (comparative)
most supratympanal (superlative)

Upper parts brownish olive; a triangular dark spot on the crown of the head; a brown spot below the eye, and a brown band along and below the supratympanal fold.

1864, ALBERT C.L.G. GÜNTHER, THE REPTILES OF BRITISH INDIA., London: R.Y. SOCIETY, page 415:

In grasshoppers the auditory nerve, after entering the tibia, divides into two branches, one forming the supratympanal ganglion, the other descending into the tympanum and forming a ganglion known as Siebold’s organ.

1899, Jame Weir, Jr., The Dawn of Reason of Mental Traits in the Lower Animals, New York: The Macmillan Company, page 21:

The outer chamber contains the supratympanal organ together with leucocytes and adipose cells.

1977, O. W. Richards, R. G. Davies, Imms' General Textbook of Entomology, Tenth edition, Volume I: Structure, Physiology and Development, London: Chapman and Hall, page 133:

(anatomy, zootomy) Describes something situated over or above the tympanum, or tympanic cavity, of the ear.


covering horse

That year he earned extra income by keeping a covering horse, which he hired out to a number of local farmers.

...he is now fat and looks as grand as a covering horse.

1911 [1798], Daniel Agnew, edited by Arthur Lowndes, Archives of the General Convention, II: The Correspondence of John Henry Hobart 1798–1801, New York: The Commission on Archives [General Convention of the Episcopal Church], Hobart Correspondence, page 64:

...but if any owner or keeper of a covering horse, shall wilfully or negligently suffer said horse to run at large, out of the inclosed lands of said owner or keeper, any person may take up said horse, and carry him to his owner or keeper, for which he shall receive two dollars...

1886 [1806], Indiana General Assembly, The Laws of the Indiana Territory: 1801–1806, Inclusive, Paoli, Indiana: Throop & Clark, Laws Passed at the Second Session of the First General Assembly of the Indiana Territory, page 51:

33. Sec. V. There shall be annually levied and collected upon all stallions or covering horses, let to mares for hire, a tax equal to the season, or price of one mare let to such stallion or covering horse.

1837 [1807], Oliver H. Prince, A Digest of the Laws of the State of Georgia, Second Edition, volume II, Athens, Georgia: Oliver H. Prince, Tax. 1807, 1808, page 392:

The pedigree of Florizel, on the side of his dam, I have often seen, when he was a covering horse, but have no recollection of it.

1830 December 28 [1827], John Wickham, American Turf Register and Sporting Magazine, volume 2, number 4, Baltimore: J. S. Skinner, Turf Register: Horses Bred by John Wickham, Esq. of Richmond, Va., page 206:

...and I would as soon this day enter it in a stake of from one to five hundred dollars each, as to select from the season of any covering horse, no matter how many mares he had put to him.

1831 February 28 [1830], William R. Johnson, American Turf Register and Sporting Magazine, volume 2, number 6, Baltimore: J. S. Skinner, Timoleon, page 269:

"It is," says the record, "ordered, that there be levied a county revenue for the year A. D. 1830, on each horse, mule or ass over three years old, 31¼ cents; each covering horse, $2; on each work oxen, 15¾ cents; each pleasure carriage, 50 cents; on each brass clock, 50 cents; on each watch, 25 cents...

1881 [1830], David Demaree Banta, A Historical Sketch of Johnson County, Indiana, Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., page 73:

A stud horse; a stallion kept as a stud.


zoobie

Now they got him inside this zoobie
I get him one day, I got no worry

2024 December 23, R3nz (lyrics and music), “Christmas Packs” (1:39 from the start):